Abstract: This article examines the rationales and manifestations of China’s vision for an ASEAN-China Community of Common Destiny (CCD). It argues that the ASEAN-China CCD…
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Abstract: The article asserts that China’s NOCs [national oil companies] have trumped Indian oil companies in four ways. First, Chinese NOCs have more oil blocks…
Abstract: Incoherent, or even nonexistent, is the common criticism leveled at India’s public opinion. Given this criticism, scholars of Indian foreign policy often do not…
Abstract: The paper analyses Bangladesh-India maritime connectivity in the Bay of Bengal region from a Bangladesh perspective. It aims at contributing to emerging literature on…
Abstract: The Bay of Bengal has for centuries been the scene of commercial and cultural interactions between the surrounding countries. In contrast, the second half…
Abstract: Motivated by regional economic integration and geo-strategic interests, the Bay of Bengal (BOB) littorals are now striving to build land and maritime connectivities to…
Abstract: There is a growing understanding among maritime security practitioners of the importance of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) as an essential enabler of maritime security.…
Abstract: The Indian Ocean region has seen an exchange of goods and commodities since antiquity. Long before the emergence of modern nation states and the…
Abstract: Donald Trump’s presidency and its consequent policies have spurred a series of geopolitical developments upending America’s core beliefs about globalization. Trump’s unilateral disruptions on…
Abstract: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s strategic pursuit of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, anchored in his conceptualisation of the ‘Confluence of the Two Seas’ and…
Abstract: Non-alignment, the lodestar of India’s foreign policy decision-making, has gradually morphed into multi-alignment. Irrespective of the change in nomenclature, the point then and now…
Preview: India-Pakistan-China relations determine South Asia’s strategic stability. Recent Events and disputes have heightened regional tensions, and have drawn the world’s attention on the region’s…
Abstract: The economic importance of oceans to nations is well known. Nearly 80 percent of the world trade by volume is carried out through ships…
Abstract: It is being widely debated that the revolution in science and technology and its role in military strategy would prove to be game changers…
Abstract: Global economic growth has always been linked to trade, generating employment, wealth and as a result enhancing overall living standards of people. Seaborne trade…
